Subject: Re: make update == make broken
To: None <tech-pkg@netbsd.org>
From: Geert Hendrickx <geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 07/05/2005 14:07:52
On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 07:33:12AM -0400, Sean Davis wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 12:10:59PM +0200, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 05:43:38AM -0400, Sean Davis wrote:
> > > And the problem of backing up the packages if they're all going to be
> > > deleted prior to building so that they can be reinstalled if they
> > > don't build still needs to be addressed, for those of us who can't
> > > afford a seperate build machine.
> > 
> > pkgtools/pkg_comp makes a fine separate build machine, without extra
> > costs.  
> 
> Unless you consider the time required to build the release in addition to
> the packages a cost.

Simply download the tarballs.  Or if you built your own system before with
build.sh, do a ./build.sh release to get the tarballs for your system.  

GH

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